VMware vSphere with Operations Management: Fast Track

Who should attend:

An individual course planning is possible for this kind of course. If you would like to know more about this course please either call us on +971 4 42 89 440 or send an email to training@flane.com.

Prerequisites

System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operatingsystems

Course Content

This intensive, extended-hours training course focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® 5 and effectively using VMware® vCenter™ Operations Manager™. This course combines the content of the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course with the vCenter Operations Manager:Analyze and Predict course. This course explores installation, configuration, and management of vSphere, which consists of VMware ESXi™ and VMware® vCenter Server™. This course also teaches skills in the use of vCenter Operations Manager as a forensic and predictive tool. This course is based on ESXi 5.1, vCenter Server 5.1 and vCenter Operations Manager 5.x.

Students who complete this course may enroll in any of several,more advanced vSphere courses. For advanced course options,go to www.vmware.com/education.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, you should understand vSphere 5.1 functions and features and be able to meet the following objectives:

Install and configure ESXi

Install and configure vCenter Server components

Use vCenter Server to configure and manage ESXi networking and storage

Deploy, manage, and migrate virtual machines

Manage user access to the VMware infrastructure

Use vCenter Server to monitor resource use

Use vCenter Server to increase scalability

Use VMware vSphere® Update Manager™ to apply ESXi patches

Use vCenter Server to manage higher availability and data protection

Understand major and minor badges and their underlying metrics

Use these badges to find the root causes of common operational problems in a vSphere environment

Perform capacity management and what-if analyses

Use the Operations tab, the Planning tab, the Alerts tab, the Analysis tab, and the Reports tab

Navigate the vCenter Operations Manager 5.0 user interface

Use heat maps and create a custom heat map

Use smart alerts to detect system problems

Articulate the use case for the new policy structure in vCenter Operations Manager and how it can be used to define configuration settings for objects in a vSphere environment

Work with groups to classify virtual objects in logical and business-related structures and how to apply them to policies